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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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log̷o, reanimated dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spirit Halloween taking a long, hungry look at the Kennedy Center

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seems at odds with the original intent of the place

Cut off photo of the Petit Trianon at Versailles with banner text reading "The Palace of Versailles Respects Your Privacy"

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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you're shopping on Google, its AI Mode (which it now boosts when you use Google) is showing you more expensive (by 21%) options for the exact same listing, a new survey claims. i.e. you're seeing more expensive vendors in the AI Mode. www.independent.ie/business/tec...

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Adrian Weckler: Analysis of Google listings shows AI is making shopping 22pc dearer

Plus, will you be running out to get the new €500 Dyson toothbrush?

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Me: Time to quiet my mind with meditation— My Mind: Remember in 7th grade when you made a joke so dorky nobody laughed so you said it again

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you need a break from terribleness, me and the prog rock podcast boys went to the happiest place on earth: 1971’s THE YES ALBUM podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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S2: Episode 8: Shining Flying Purple Podcast

Podcast Episode · An Embarrassment of Prog · September 1 · 1h 19m

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

also like i keep banging on about this but what USAID was doing was in many cases the first-dollar interventions, done at scale-- literally the best possible conversion rate from American resources into human welfare. there isn't another set of interventions that are just as good

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thread 🧵

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Hate the petard, but man, do I love the hoist

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The very specific and transitory bond that emerges when you and a stranger both go into emergency mode descending the stairs to try to catch a doors-are-closing subway and one of puts a largely symbolic hand in the doorframe until both of you are on.

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How is this nakedly racist campaign against an entire people not a national scandal? How inured have we become?

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Levels of “Bitch what the fuck” are getting dangerously high

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton making a naughty joke with a safe sex message on network tv during the AIDS crisis, she was an ally youtu.be/DAB1BohKAB4

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Dolly (ABC, 1988) - Dolly Parton tells a naughty joke!

YouTube video by Life in Analog

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Seen yesterday at the Morgan Library. A little inspiration for Monday.

Slightly off-center photo of the female knight of swords from the Sforza-Visconti tarot

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There’s not another film with a soundtrack like this—incredible pastiche (“Hot One”), cover versions that threaten the original (“H2B”), classics given a fresh spotlight (“Make Me Smile”)…hit me like a drug in the theater.

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

One more because I can’t not: Swordfishtrombones Rain Dogs Frank’s Wild Years

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Yes Album Fragile Close to the Edge

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026

There's a lot in this thread & its multiple & various reply/quote offshoots that i disagree with, & am exhausted by, but i want to focus on 1 that i keep trying to press on: Let's stipulate LLMs *Can* do grad- & even expert-level math & we should prep for a revolution in the field… So what then?…

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/08/2026

There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The way my imagination is works is that I fantasize about proposing a book on Selling England by the Pound and some implacable authority then demands that I do one on Invisible Touch

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Next Met Gala to Honor Encyclopedia Brown

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 28/07/2026

Neuromancer is chillingly relevant today because it asks: what if a guy would rather Die than stop Going Online

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I agree: watch this and listen to this unconscionable violation of peoples’ lives. Don’t miss the CEO having the gall to say that if you don’t like it they’ll just buy your house. This, by the way, is all for bitcoin mining. It’s monstrous that this is being allowed to happen.

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I saw two productions this weekend that feature charismatic leaders a long way from home, a consideration of the moral weight of hospitality to strangers, and the consequences of desire and the pursuit of power. And, in the case of Rocky Horror, memorable dialogue.

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“Our Bronze Age is collapsing” is pretty much the equivalent of that moment when a character ostentatiously says the title of the movie

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There’s nothing subtle here. Forced immiseration. The less fortunate need to suffer more and more extremely. Notice that people who have spent a lot of energy bemoaning government bureaucracy are pleased to ramp up paperwork to keep a grandmother hungry.

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 18/07/2026

Please don’t make me cast The Odyssey entirely from Taskmaster contestants I have my hands full with casting Hitchhiker’s Guide

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The wildfires in Ontario and Minnesota are a direct consequence of the high temperatures and low rainfall resulting from a major July heat dome event. A year ago we showed that these events had tripled in frequency due to human-caused warming: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/extreme...

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Weeping tears of joy at the mere idea

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

NYC subway PA settings come in the following settings 1 whisper-quiet 2 ear surgery 3 Boomhauer

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Due to current conditions we are asking all residents to refrain from burning the Evil Dead until further notice

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Paul Taylor @pablowapsi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just want to send out a big thank you to all who have been helping out by either donating, or sharing the link! It means so very much getting all the help, and chipping away at this hospital bill. ^_^

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

You’re asking me to believe this gross-smelling smoke came from perfectly healthy trees?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is primarily a cash-grab to hand money to his fellow antivax fraudsters. Even if we pretend the issue is unsettled (it's settled), it's simply not possible to allocate $5 billion towards legitimate study of the issue. The money will all go into the pockets of child-killers.

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Domes, ranked 10. Heat 9. Millenium 8. Super 7. Teapot 6. Astro 5. Thunder 4. 14 Shots to the 3. Geodesic 2. Half 1. Brunelleschi's

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It really is that simple: there's no reason for an agency tasked with "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" to function as a gestapo that invades neighborhoods and shoots people. Why do they have military weapons and use military tactics? They're supposed to be paperwork clerks.

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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I’m at the Legionnaires’ outbreak. I’m at the cyclosporiasis outbreak. I’m at the combination Legionnaires’ and cyclosporiasis outbreak.

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Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We must consider the possibility this is some sort of magic ailment that only kills if it is named.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

okay I need to watch something else to calm down, is Sorcerer still on criterion

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Wraithe @wraithe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Wow, what a shame that they're going out of business. I read the whole post on their site detailing what happened, and I just feel for this. www.tomboytoes.com/blogs/news...

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Happy Laurie Anderson "National Anthem" day! "...it is a big improvement over most national anthems, though, which are in 4/4 time, you know, 'WE'RE NUMBER ONE THIS IS THE BEST PLACE'..." ;) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cE6...

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Laurie Anderson PSA: "National Anthem"

YouTube video by Steve Mokris

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/06/2026

it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in

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